Current situation where I live in a “great” school district in the US of A in 2023:
School cannot hire bus drivers. No one will take the job. (Honestly GOOD FOR HER!) (Pay a living wage!)
Whenever a bus driver calls out sick, a busload of kids isn’t getting to/from school on time. I know someone whose kid’s school ended at 2:30 and they got home at 5, hours late. This kid is like 7.
School district hired a consulting firm to come up with ideas about out how to solve this problem. (Pay a living wage.)
Now they’re all “Here are our options. We can make half the schools start early so that the buses can make two trips.” (This option would put the bus arrival time before 6am for some kids.) “We could require all teaching assistants to obtain a commercial driving license before we will hire them.” (?!?!?!?) “We could allow people as young as 18 to drive the school bus.” “We could stop driving some kids (magnet schools and expanded walk zones) to school.”
Pay bus drivers a living wage.
PAY 📢 THEM 📢 A 📢 LIVING 📢 WAGE
Ask a fucking toddler on the street and they will say PAY THEM MORE. Raise the taxes, pay them more.